Tesla crash highlights a problem: When cars are partly self-driving, humans don’t feel responsible
Was Autopilot on when a Tesla Model S smashed into the back of a parked Culver City fire truck on the 405 Freeway on Monday in broad daylight?
That's what the driver told police. Tesla Inc. — which would have such information because it monitors car and driver behavior over wireless networks — has not...
GM Says It Will Review Safety of Panoramic Sunroofs
General Motors says it has voluntarily begun an internal review of panoramic sunroofs in its vehicles following a Consumer Reports investigation that detailed how hundreds of sunroofs nationwide and across the auto industry have shattered without warning.
“GM has initiated an internal review of our panoramic sunroofs,” the automaker told CR in an email. “We...
Judge orders new Olympus trial over superbug death
A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was publicly tied to deadly superbug outbreaks.
Citing those “willful discovery violations” by the Japanese device giant, King County Superior Court Judge Steve Rosen ordered...
Wells Fargo loses bid to end Philadelphia predatory lending lawsuit
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Philadelphia on Tuesday rejected Wells Fargo & Co’s bid to dismiss that city’s lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. mortgage lender of predatory lending targeting black and Hispanic borrowers.
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody said Philadelphia may pursue claims that the bank’s alleged “reverse redlining” violated the federal Fair Housing...
City-owned hospitals are letting killers loose on the streets: suits
City-owned hospitals are letting psychotic killers slip through their grasp, say a pair of recently-filed lawsuits.
Francisco Perez, who has a history of mental illness, drug abuse and violent behavior, threatened to kill his brother in October 2016 while he was a patient at Metropolitan Hospital Center in East Harlem, says a suit in Bronx...
U.S. Senate Democrats propose fines for credit reporting agency hacks
Two Senate Democrats are proposing large new fines for credit reporting agencies that lose consumers’ personal information in data breaches, according to a bill they introduced on Wednesday.
The bill would impose potentially significant fines against companies like Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian if their cyber security fails to ward off hackers trying to obtain sensitive...
Health Insurer Centene Is Sued Over Lack of Medical Coverage
People who bought policies from Centene, a large for-profit health insurance company, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday claiming the company does not provide adequate access to doctors in 15 states.
“Members have difficulty finding — and in many cases cannot find — medical providers,” who will accept patients covered under policies sold by Centene,...
Ford urges 2,900 pickup owners to stop driving after new Takata death
Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it had confirmed a second death in an older pickup truck caused by a defective airbag inflator of Takata Corp and urged 2,900 owners in North America to stop driving immediately until they can get replacement parts.
The second largest U.S. automaker said it confirmed in late December that...
$15 Million Johnson & Johnson Pelvic Mesh Verdict in New Jersey
In Bergen County, New Jersey, a jury handed down a $15 million verdict against Ethicon, a company owned by Johnson and Johnson, based on defective pelvic mesh implants that caused plaintiff Elizabeth Hrymoc chronic pain.
Pelvic mesh implants are used to treat women who have stress, incontinence, and pelvic organ prolapse.
Hyrmoc claimed that Ethicon designed...
These companies put profits over safety, group says
Takata’s cover-up that as many as 70 million of its airbags were potentially lethal was among the worst cases of corporate misconduct in last year, according to the American Association for Justice.
AAJ, a nonprofit group of plaintiff attorneys, recently released its year-end 20-page report. It took aim at corporations for putting profits over safety...
